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" In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat. "
John Malkovich
New
Suit
New York
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" I love Chicago, but in a lot of ways it's a disappointment. You can work there for years and years, and because you're in Chicago, you don't get the recognition. It has some of the best theater in the country, but when they shoot a movie there, they bring in all their actors. "
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" I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable. "
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" I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression. "
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" People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you'll never see the headlines say, 'Six billion people got along rather well today.' You'll have the headline about the 30 people who shot each other. "
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" I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic. "
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Little
Fabric
" I'm not a very skeptical person. "
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Skeptical
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" I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set. "
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" I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved. "
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" You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it. "
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Play
" I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run. "
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Run
Empire
Want
" I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor. "
John Malkovich
Pretty
Good
Actor
" I like very much to do movies. "
John Malkovich
Movies
Very
Like
" I'm more boring and more conservative. "
John Malkovich
Conservative
More
Boring
" Most filmmakers' entire body of knowledge is of other movies. When they describe things, they describe them in relation to other movies. That's why we have so many cyclical movies that look like other movies. But I'm not cynical. I even go to some of those movies. "
John Malkovich
Movies
Look
Knowledge
" I have at times spoken with my peers and the head of the actors' union about why we're not paid when we appear in, say, a 'TMZ' production, but there seems to be no real interest in combatting it. "
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Production
Real
Say
" There's a reason screens are only this thick. "
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Only
Reason
Screens
" Utopia means elsewhere. "
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Means
Elsewhere
Utopia
" I don't need to be liked. "
John Malkovich
Need
Liked
" People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on. "
John Malkovich
Life
Short
Say
" I'm not a control maniac. "
John Malkovich
Maniac
Control
" If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything. "
John Malkovich
Thinking
You
Much
" I know fashion can be intensely goofy, but it is something I've always taken pretty seriously. "
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Seriously
Always
Fashion
" I don't remember my life before I had children. "
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My Life
Life
Had
" You have to play your characters, not like them. "
John Malkovich
Like
Play
Characters
" Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion. "
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Out
Scary
Like
" It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others. "
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" Most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house all by themselves. "
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Live
" Anybody doing something brings something to it. "
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Anybody
Brings
" I don't throw things or yell. "
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Throw
Yell